Quotes on Yoga

This world is your body. This world is a great school, This world is your silent teacher.

Live in the present, forget the past. Give up hopes of future.

The more you meditate, the more helpful you can be to others, and the more deeply you will be in tune with God.

Where is the delusion when truth is known? Where is the disease when the mind is clear? Where is death when the Breath is controlled? Therefore surrender to Yoga.

Master your breath, let the self be in bliss, contemplate on the sublime within you.

Not all of us are called to be hermits, but all of us need enough silence and solitude in our lives to enable the deeper voice of our own self to be heard at least occasionally.

Those who are firm, enduring, simple and unpretentious are the nearest to virtue.

A realized one sends out waves of spiritual influence in his aura, which draw many people towards him. Yet he may sit in a cave and maintain complete silence.

Once the current of awareness of the self is set afoot, it becomes everlasting and continuous by intensification.

The "I" thought is said to be the sum total of all thoughts. The source of the "I" thought has to be inquired into.

Turn the mind inward and cease thinking of yourself as the body; thereby you will come to know that the self is ever happy. Neither grief nor misery is experienced in this state.

Many people excuse their own faults but judge other persons harshly. We should reverse this attitude by excusing others' shortcomings and by harshly examining our own.

Meditation depends upon the strength of mind. It must be unceasing even when one is engaged in work. Particular time for it is meant for novices.

When one makes the mind stick to one thought, the mind becomes rock-steady and the energy is conserved.

Smiling away your troubles requires a clear conscience that harbors no insincerity.

If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?

When you demand nothing of the world, nor of God, when you want nothing, seek nothing, expect nothing, then the supreme state will come to you uninvited and unexpected.

Mental activity in the daytime creates a latent form of habitual thought which again transforms itself at night into various delusory visions sensed by the semi-consciousness. This is called the deceptive and magic-like Bardo of Dream.

I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my Soul.

Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.

We can do no great things-only small things with great love.